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Originally Posted by rcentros
Well, this is kind of "snarky." I would think that statistics about the land mass of the United States and the statistics about the percentage of U.S. eReaders in the world, probably don't coincide. But more importantly, the poster to whom you responded, specifically said "in the US." If the OP doesn't live in the U.S. then -- obviously -- this doesn't apply to him or her.
I am from the United States and almost all eBooks I've borrowed from my local library were in Kindle format. Since the vast majority of eBook users in the U.S. use the Kindle, this makes sense. I'm guessing -- here in the U.S. -- that the number of Kindle eBook titles available for borrowing will eventually overtake those in the ePub format. So this is definitely something for U.S. residents to consider.
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Well, in my book its "snarky" to assume everyone owning or wanting to an ereader has to be an US citizen. Last time I looked this were the
International forums not everybody-lives-in-the-States-and-no-other- country-in-this-world-exists-for-us-forums.
And since the vast majority of ereaders used outside the US are epub devices and furthermore the libraries in Europe work on epub this is definitely something
to consider as you say.
So, it would have been more
considerate and easier to either ask for the location before jumping to conclusions or give the full information.
All in all the prejudice shown by assuming everyone just has to be in the States just added to my prejudice.